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Position Summary: The Writing Center seeks competent, enthusiastic writing consultants to work with students from across campus, LIT and local high schools (dual credit students) to help them with various writing skills: invention, organization, drafting, proofreading, revising, etc. Extensive training is provided.
Essential Job Duties:
- Attend mandatory training
- Collect student report forms for sessions
- Greet students and welcome them to the Writing Center
- Meet with students for 30- or 60-minute sessions in person and online
- Read and assess student writing at any stage in the writing process
- Provide helpful feedback and insight to writers
- Document canceled or no-show appointments
- Schedule student sessions as needed
- Assist with the front desk for short periods as requested
- Assist in outreach for university events
Required Qualifications:
- Must be a current undergraduate or graduate student at Lamar University
- Must have a strong GPA, typically 3.5 or higher
- Must have excellent writing skills, both with lower order and higher order concerns (grammar and mechanics/organization, development, style, etc.)
- Must have strong critical reading skills
- Must be punctual, organized and efficient
- Must be outgoing and open to working with students from a variety of disciplines
- Must have strong interpersonal skills
- Should be malleable and willing to receive feedback
- Must have familiarity with Microsoft Office, iPad use, apps and other basic computer skills
- Must have a strong sense of ethics
- Should be able to work independently and with minimal supervision
- Should be curious and eager to learn more about writing across the disciplines
- Must maintain a professional demeanor
- Must uphold policies of the Writing Center
- Must uphold privacy policies of LU
Consultants will not:
- Draft student papers
- Edit student papers
- Type student papers
Once potential candidates have been identified, please be prepared to communicate with the director to schedule an editing test and mock session, which is the preliminary step in the hiring process.